| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Apophis" | Egypt | The demon of darkness |
| Deities name "Arapacana" | Buddhist | God. A BODHISATTVA or spiritual meditation buddha. Originally a DHARANI of MANJUSRI who became deified. Accompanied by four minor deities. Also a collective name for the five buddhas. Color: yellow or red. Attributes: standing wearing a monkish garment and carrying Book and sword.... |
| Goddess name "Ardwinna" | British | Celtic Goddess of the wildwood. Ardwinna demands a fine of money for every animal killed in her wood British |
| Nymph name "Arethusa" | Greek | One of the Nereid, and the nymph of the famous well, thus in the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. Alpheius reckons her among the Sicilian nymphs, and as the divinity who inspired pastoral poetry. |
| Goddess name "Armkis [Greek]" | Egypt / Upper | Birth goddess. Minor deity with cult centers in lower Nubia and at Elephantine. She is variously the daughter of RE, and of KHNUM and SATIS. Anukis lives in the cataracts of the Lower Nile. Her portrait appears in the Temple of Rameses II at Beit-et-Wali where she suckles the pharaoh, suggesting that she is connected with birth and midwifery, but she also demonstrates a malignant aspect as a strangler (see HATHOR). Her sacred animal is the gazelle. Depicted anthropomorphically wearing a turban (modius) with ostrich feathers. Also Anuket (Egyptian).... |
"Asa-Thor(r)" | Norse | A common name for Thor. Norse. |
| Demon name "Asakku" | Babylonian | Plague spreading demons. Babylonian |
| Demon name "Asmodeus," | Talmud | demon of Matrimonial Unhappiness. Another name for Asmodeus, Prince of demons, who slew the seven husbands of Sara. Talmud |
| God name "Asokottamasri (the great beauty of Asoka)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA in Lamaism. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: red.... |
| Demon name "Astaroth aka Ashtaroth" | Semitic | Astarot, a Grand Duke of Hell; his main åśśistants are four demons called Aamon, Pruslas, Barbatos and Rashaverak. Semitic |
| Demon name "Astfgl" | Discworld | A demon Lord, king of Hell, and his modern, go-ahead attitude is driving the other demons to distraction. Discworld |
"Astraeus" | Greek | A Titan and son of Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eosphorus (the morning star), and all the stars of heaven. (Theogony 376) Ovid ( Metamorphoses xiv) calls the winds fratres Astraei, which does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, but brothers through Astraeus, their common father. |
| King name "Astypalaea" | Greek | A daughter of Phoenix and Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus. She was a sister of Europa, and became by Poseidon the mother of the Argonaut Ancaeus and of Eurypylus, king of the island of Cos. The island Astypalaea among the Cyclades derived its name from her. |
| Demon name "Asuras" | Hindu / Vedic | A group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as demons. They were opposed to the devas. Hindu / Vedic |
| Demon name "Asuras" | Hindu / Vedic | sky gods. Identified in the opening of the Rg Veda, they become demonic in later Hinduism, the antagonists of the DEVA gods.... |
| Goddess name "Atargatis" | Northern Syrian | Mother goddess. She enjoyed major cults at Khirbet Tannur, where she is depicted as the vegetation goddess in nine separate variations, and at Khirbet Brak, where she is åśśociated with dolphins. She often carries a cornucopia linking her with the goddess TYCHE (fortune) and may commonly be flanked by lions. She sometimes carries a rudder or wears the mural crown of a city guardian. There are hints of sky affinities in some depictions, with a sign of the zodiac or a nimbus-like veil.... |
| Goddess name "Atars'amain (morning star of heaven)" | Pre - Islamic northern / central Arabian | Astral deity of uncertain gender. Worshiped particularly by the Isamme tribe, but revered widely among other Arabs. Known from circa 800 BC and identified in letters of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. May be synonymous with the Arab goddess ALLAT whose cult was centered on Palmyra.... |
"Athamas" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, etc. (Apollodorus i) |
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